Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Oxford Equestrian is a stables just outside Oxford run by equitation scientist Elise Clements. It offers full working and part livery, riding lessons with a BHS trained instructor, and clinics. Facilities include a 40x20 menage, a cross-country schooling field, a hot horse wash and a secure tack room.
Warwick International School of Riding is a family-run riding school at Guys Cliffe near Warwick. It gives lessons and hacks for beginners to advanced riders and runs pony camps and fun days. Riders can also bring their own horses.
Lowlands Equestrian Centre in Shrewley, Warwickshire is an RDA and BHS approved riding centre and home of the Riding for the Disabled Association national office. It offers riding lessons for disabled and non-disabled riders, hacking and riding camps. It also runs training for RDA coaches and volunteers.
Stratford upon Avon RDA, founded in 1968, provides riding for people with disabilities. Sessions run at The Stable Yard, Home Farm, Compton Verney and are tailored to each rider. The group is run by volunteers and keeps four ponies and horses.
Equine Learning CIC is a 5-star licensed riding establishment at Wootton Park near Wootton Wawen. It offers equine facilitated learning, alternative education, therapeutic riding and horsemanship. It also gives riding lessons, trail rides, pony days and Pony Club activities.
Rockstar Equine is a BHS approved, licensed riding establishment between Cannock and Penkridge. It gives riding lessons to riders from age 2 and runs Pony Club activities. It also offers full and competition livery on a small yard with a floodlit arena.
Cotswold RDA is a Riding for the Disabled group at Prestbury Park that provides riding and pony activities for people of all ages living with a disability. It offers riding sessions, a mechanical horse, pony one-to-ones, Tea with a Pony for people living with dementia and accredited educational courses. It is run with the help of volunteers.
Whitfield Farm Equestrian near Ettington is a livery and competition yard run by Richard and Louise. It offers DIY, part, full, training and holiday livery, plus lessons and group clinics in two all-weather arenas. A hacking track with cross-country fences is available to hire in summer.
Cotswold Equestrian Academy is a community interest company at Lower Hind Farm, Bretforton near Evesham. It offers riding lessons, pony care days, residential camps and a young equestrian programme, with a therapeutic approach. It also provides full and schooling livery.
Tewkesbury Riding School is a small riding school near Tewkesbury, run since 2009 by Keith Hill and Jo Bowen. It has horses and ponies for all riders and indoor and outdoor schools. It is also a Pony Club Centre with monthly meets.
Hayswood Equestrian is a family-oriented riding centre in Naunton, Worcestershire, established in 2002. It has over 30 horses and ponies and qualified instructors, catering for riders of all ages and abilities.
Longdole Polo Club is a family polo club near Brimpsfield, between Cheltenham and Cirencester. It aims to make polo affordable and accessible and offers lessons through its academy team. Professional player Mikey Howe keeps his string of ponies at the club.
Abby Lloyd is a riding coach based in Priors Norton, Gloucestershire, with a 30x60 mirrored arena, portable cross-country fences and show jumps. She coaches horse and rider combinations of all levels with private, group and shared lessons, lunging and schooling. She holds a BSc in Equestrian Sports Coaching from Hartpury and runs clinics at other venues.
Cotswold Working Horses near Tewkesbury keeps the tradition of working horses alive with Clydesdales and other heavy breeds. It offers carriage driving lessons with a single light horse or a pair of heavy horses, pleasure drives, horse-drawn picnics and wedding carriages. It also provides horse-powered forestry and pasture management.
Orchard Farm Equestrian Coaching near Upton upon Severn is run by Caroline Jones, a BHS Intermediate Instructor and Pony Club instructor and examiner with 40 years of teaching experience. She teaches riders of all ages on their own horses and rides horses for rehabilitation and schooling. Stables are available at the farm.
Haddon Training is a training provider offering work-based apprenticeships and qualifications in equine and animal care, business and alternative education. Its equine programmes include horseracing, a BHS partnership, horse transport courses and Equestrian Sporting Excellence. It has been endorsed by bodies including British Showjumping, British Eventing and the British Horseracing Authority. It is part of the Educ8 Training Group.
HorsesConnect is the dressage training business of Wanda Bendisch near Much Hadham, Hertfordshire. She gives classical dressage lessons for riders of all levels and trains horses. Wanda has over 25 years of experience in Germany, Spain and the UK.
Rachel Levy is a BHS qualified freelance riding coach covering Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Essex. She coaches riders in eventing, dressage and jumping for competition, BHS exams and leisure. She also offers horse schooling, dressage judging and stable management training.
Silverstone Riding School is a Pony Club linked riding school set in 130 acres of Northamptonshire countryside, established over 50 years ago by the Wesley family. It has about 30 ponies and horses and specialises in riding for children and teens, with some adult riders. Facilities include two floodlit outdoor arenas, a small indoor area, a cross country course and off-road hacking.
Confident & Connected is run by Hanna Walton and Matt Feerick. They take horses for training stays with full livery, start groups of young horses three times a year and help with problem horses. They also offer lessons, clinics and an online foundation training programme.
Witney Pony Partners is a licensed equitation centre in Witney run by Liz James. It gives one-to-one lessons combining groundwork and riding in a rope hackamore, following equitation science principles. It also offers bridle-less riding, liberty and trick training, and summer pony days, with 13 horses and ponies.
Turpins Lodge Riding School near Hook Norton offers riding lessons and hacks for all abilities, from first-time riders to experienced riders who jump. It has a showjumping paddock and two cross-country courses within hacking distance. It is council licensed and approved by the Association of British Riding Schools.
Pony Pursuits is a riding centre just outside Oxford with sites at Huckleberry Farm in Heathfield and Sandy Lane in Horspath. It offers woodland rides, hacks, ride-and-groom sessions and pony therapy for adults and children. It also hosts pony parties at Huckleberry Farm.
Whitford Horses is a riding school, livery and competition yard in Worcestershire, founded in 1964 and run by Sarah Hedges. It gives group, private and lead rein lessons to children and adults. Sarah competes nationally in show jumping.
